Caddy is "a powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server with automatic HTTPS written in Go"

• Setting up a reverse proxy using Caddy
• Setting up CORS in Caddy
• Making Caddy use a self-signed SSL certificate
• Enabling gzip/zstd compression in Caddy
• Enabling access logging in Caddy

Installation script on Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt install -y debian-keyring debian-archive-keyring apt-transport-https curl
curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/caddy/stable/gpg.key' | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/caddy-stable-archive-keyring.gpg
curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/caddy/stable/debian.deb.txt' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/caddy-stable.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install caddy

handle and handle_path

The handle and handle_path directives are similar. However, handle_path will strip the path prefix from the request when matched.

handle_path /foo/* {
	# The path has the "/foo" prefix stripped
}

handle /bar/* {
	# The path still retains "/bar"
}

Further reading

• redir for redirects.
• reverse_proxy for proxying requests to another server.